Ioana Bradea

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  Deniz Otay

  Deniz Otay graduated Law School in Cluj. She is currently working her way out of the legal field and into interdisciplinary approaches of psychology. She published poems in a special series of unpublished poets in Steaua, as well as in Poesis International and Zona Nouă. She has read some of her poems in Sibiu, Oradea, Iași. She currently lives in Bucharest.

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  Alex Drace-Francis

  Alex Drace-Francis is Associate Professor of Modern European Cultural History at the University of Amsterdam.

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  William Faulkner

  William Cuthbert Faulkner was an American writer. He is best known for his novels and short stories set in the fictional Yoknapatawpha County, Mississippi, a stand-in for Lafayette County where he spent most of his life. A Nobel laureate, Faulkner is one of the most celebrated writers of American literature and often is considered the greatest writer of Southern literature.
  Faulkner was born in New Albany, Mississippi, and raised in Oxford, Mississippi. During World War I, he joined the Royal Canadian Air Force, but did not serve in combat. Returning to Oxford, he attended the University of Mississippi for three semesters before dropping out. He moved to New Orleans, where he wrote his first novel Soldiers' Pay (1925). He went back to Oxford

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  John Fowles

  John Robert Fowles was born in Leigh-on-Sea, a small town in Essex. He recalled the English suburban culture of the 1930s as oppressively conformist and his family life as intensely conventional. Of his childhood, Fowles said "I have tried to escape ever since."
  
  Fowles attended Bedford School, a large boarding school designed to prepare boys for university, from ages 13 to 18. After briefly attending the University of Edinburgh, Fowles began compulsory military service in 1945 with training at Dartmoor, where he spent the next two years. World War II ended shortly after his training began so Fowles never came near combat, and by 1947 he had decided that the military life was not for him.
  
  Fowles then spent four years at Oxford, where he discov

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  Christopher Buckley

  Christopher Buckley graduated cum laude from Yale University in 1976. He shipped out in the Merchant Marine and at age 24 became managing editor of Esquire magazine. At age 29, he became chief speechwriter to the Vice President of the United States, George H.W. Bush. Since 1989 he has been founder and editor-in-chief of Forbes Life magazine.
  
  Librarian Note: There is more than one author in the GoodReads database with this name. See this thread for more information.
  
  He is the author of twelve books, most of them national bestsellers. They include: The White House Mess, Wet Work, Thank You For Smoking, God Is My Broker, Little Green Men, No Way To Treat a First Lady, Florence of Arabia, Boomsday and Supreme Courtship.
  
  Mr. Buckley has contribut

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  Mircea Cărtărescu

  Romanian poet, novelist, essayist and a professor at the University of Bucharest.
  
  Born in Bucharest, he graduated from the University of Bucharest's Faculty of Letters, Department of Romanian Language And Literature, in 1980. Between 1980 and 1989 he worked as a Romanian language teacher, and then he worked at the Writers Union and as an editor at the Caiete Critice magazine. In 1991 he became a lecturer at the Chair of Romanian Literary History, part of the University of Bucharest Faculty of Letters. As of 2010, he is an associate professor. Between 1994-1995 he was a visiting lecturer at the University of Amsterdam.
  
  Among his writings: "Nostalgia" (a full edition of the earlier published "Visul"), 1993, "Travesti" 1994, "Orbitor" 2001, "Enc

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  Annie Ernaux

  The author of some twenty works of fiction and memoir, Annie Ernaux is considered by many to be France’s most important writer. In 2022, she was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature. She has also won the Prix Renaudot for A Man's Place and the Marguerite Yourcenar Prize for her body of work. More recently she received the International Strega Prize, the Prix Formentor, the French-American Translation Prize, and the Warwick Prize for Women in Translation for The Years, which was also shortlisted for the Man Booker International Prize in 2019. Her other works include Exteriors, A Girl's Story, A Woman's Story, The Possession, Simple Passion, Happening, I Remain in Darkness, Shame, A Frozen Woman, and A Man's Place.

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  Alain Mabanckou

  Alain Mabanckou was born in 1966 in Congo-Brazzaville (French Congo). He currently resides in Los Angeles, where he teaches literature at UCLA, having previously spent four years at the University of Michigan. Mabanckou will be a Fellow in the Humanities Council at Princeton University in 2007-2008. One of Francophone Africa's most prolific contemporary writers, he is the author of six volumes of poetry and six novels. He received the Sub-Saharan Africa Literary Prize in 1999 for his first novel, Blue-White-Red, the Prize of the Five Francophone Continents for Broken Glass, and the Prix Renaudot in 2006 for Memoirs of a Porcupine. He was selected by the French publishing trade journal Lire as one of the fifty writers to watch out for in the

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• Aglaja Veteranyi

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  Truman Capote

  Librarian Note: There is more than one author by this name in the Goodreads database.
  
  Truman Capote was an American writer whose non-fiction, stories, novels and plays are recognised literary classics, including the novella Breakfast at Tiffany's (1958) and In Cold Blood (1965), which he labeled a "non-fiction novel." At least 20 films and TV dramas have been produced from Capote novels, stories and screenplays.
  
  He was born as Truman Streckfus Persons to a salesman Archulus Persons and young Lillie Mae. His parents divorced when he was four and he went to live with his mother's relatives in Monroeville, Alabama. He was a lonely child who learned to read and write by himself before entering school. In 1933, he moved to New York City to live wi

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  Alex Drace-Francis

  Alex Drace-Francis is Associate Professor of Modern European Cultural History at the University of Amsterdam.

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  Radu Paraschivescu

  Radu Paraschivescu was born in 1960 in Bucharest, and grew up in Lugoj (Timiş), where he suffered a severe regime on home made chocolate, sugar candy and Doboş cake; he was accustomed to the idea that life is sweet and must be greedily crunched.
  
  He is a translator and co-author of two reference works in the sports literature (Larousse Encyclopedia of footbal and Athens Olympic Games in Athens: 1896-2004). He translated nearly sixty books of English, American, Canadian and French authors.
  
  He published two novels (Efemeriada şi Balul fantomelor), a volume of stories about Bucharest (Bazar bizar) and one essay about dishonesty in sports (Fanionul roșu - 2005), for which he received the "Ioan Chirilă" National Award for best sports book of the ye

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  Dan Lungu

  Scriitor, conferenţiar la Catedra de Sociologie, Universitatea „Alexandru Ioan Cuza“, Iaşi.
  Studii postdoctorale la Sorbona.
  Redactor al revistei „Au Sud de l’Est” (Paris).
  În 1996, iniţiază grupul literar Club 8.
  Intre 2001 si 2002, redactor-şef al revistei de cultură „Timpul”.
  
  Face parte din grupul de scriitori români invitaţi la Les belles étrangères (Franţa, 2005), alături de Gabriela Adameşteanu, Ştefan Agopian, Ana Blandiana, Mircea Cărtărescu, Gheorghe Craciun, Letiţia Ilea, Ion Mureşan, Marta Petreu, Simona Popescu, Cecilia Ştefănescu şi Vlad Zografi.
  
  I se montează piesele Cu cuţitul la os (Green Hours, Teatrul Luni, 2002), Nuntă la parter (spectacol-lectură la Teatrul Odeon, 2003; spectacol-lectură la Teatrul Luceafărul, Iaşi, 2006

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  Miljenko Jergović

  Miljenko Jergović is a Bosnian prose writer. Jergović currently lives and works in Zagreb, Croatia.
  
  Jergović has established himself as a writer in both Bosnia and Herzegovina and Croatia, and his stories and novels have been translated into more than 20 languages. Critics have acclaimed his capability to turn every topic into a story without changing it at all, hence preserving its internal logic.
  
  His more acclaimed works include his debut Opservatorija Varšava (Warsaw Observatory, 1988); Hauzmajstor Šulc (Schultz the Repairman, 2000), both collections of poetry; a collection of short stories Sarajevski marlboro (Sarajevo Marlboro, 1994); the novels Mama Leone and Dvori od oraha ("The Mansion in Walnut," 2003; and the drama Kažeš, anđeo (You

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  Adrian Schiop

  Adrian Schiop a absolvit Facultatea de Psihologie şi Ştiinţe ale Educaţiei, secţia pedagogie - limba şi literatura română, a Universităţii "Babeş-Bolyai" din Cluj. Urmează, apoi, un Master în Lingvistică Integrală la Facultatea de Litere a aceleiaşi Universităţi.
  A lucrat ca profesor de limba şi literatura română (1997 - 2001, Cluj-Napoca), zugrav (2002, Auckland, Noua Zeelandă), jurnalist (2004 - 2010, Evenimentul Zilei, Prezent, Romania Liberă).
  A debutat în revista Fracturi (2001) şi a publicat două romane: pe bune/pe invers (Polirom, 2004) şi Zero grade Kelvin (Polirom, 2009).
  In 2009, a fost inclus in antologia 100towatch, a celor mai promiţători 100 de artişti români, coordonată de Tom Wilson şi Miloš Jovanović.

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  Dan Coman

  S-a născut și a copilărit în localitatea Gersa din județul Bistrița-Năsăud. A debutat în revista „Minerva” în 1993. Studii de filosofie la Cluj (absolvite în 1999). Prezent în volumul colectiv Camera (Euphorion, Sibiu, 1995), alături de poeții Marin Mălaicu-Hondrari și Florin Partene.
  
  A publicat poezie în majoritatea revistelor literare importante din România. Pentru prima sa carte, Anul cârtiței galbene, a primit Premiul Național de Poezie „Mihai Eminescu” pentru debut și Premiul pentru debut al Uniunii Scriitorilor din România.
  
  În 2007, a susținut o lectură din poemele sale, traduse în limba franceză de Linda Maria Baros, la Paris, iar în 2009 a participat la un atelier de poezie și traduceri în Suedia (Insula Gotland).
  
  În 2010 beneficiază d

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• Elena Vlădăreanu

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  Lavinia Braniște

  Lavinia Braniște s-a născut la Brăila în 1983.
  A studiat limbi străine la universitățile din Cluj și București.
  A debutat în literatură în 2006 cu volumul de poezii „Povești cu mine” (Paralela 45), după care a publicat o colecție de proză scurtă, „Cinci minute pe zi” (Casa de Pariuri Literare) în 2011.
  Polirom i-a publicat și colecția de povestiri „Escapada” (2014). „Interior zero” este primul ei roman.
  

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  Andrei Dósa

  Andrei Dósa (n.1985, Braşov), a absolvit cursurile masterului de Inovare Culturală (denumit anterior master de Scriere Creatoare) din cadrul Facultăţii de Litere Braşov.
  
  A publicat volumele: Când va veni ceea ce este desăvârşit (2011), American Experience (2013), Nada (2015), adevăratul băiat de aur (2017).
  
  A tradus mai multe cărţi din engleză şi maghiară. Din 2012, este redactor al revistei ''Poesis internaţional''.

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  Elif Shafak

  Elif Shafak is an award-winning British-Turkish novelist and the most widely read female author in Turkey. She writes in both Turkish and English, and has published seventeen books, eleven of which are novels. Her work has been translated into fifty languages. Shafak holds a PhD in political science and she has taught at various universities in Turkey, the US and the UK, including St Anne's College, Oxford University, where she is an honorary fellow. She is a member of Weforum Global Agenda Council on Creative Economy and a founding member of ECFR (European Council on Foreign Relations). An advocate for women's rights, LGBT rights and freedom of speech, Shafak is an inspiring public speaker and twice a TED Global speaker, each time receivin

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  Alina Nelega

  
  Alina Nelega (n. 1960) este un critic literar, dramaturg, eseist, prozator și publicist român contemporan.
  
  Piesele ei sunt traduse în engleză, germană, franceză, maghiară, poloneză, bulgară, italiană, albaneză, catalană; publicate în antologii, reviste sau volum acestea sunt reprezentate în țară și internațional. Traduce și regizează spectacole pe texte noi, conduce workshopuri și masterclasses în țară și internațional. Participă la rezidențe de dramaturgie în Marea Britanie și Statele Unite.
  
  Din anul 2010 este profesor universitar și conduce masteratul de scriere dramatică al Facultății de Teatru din cadrul Universității de Arte din Tg. Mureș. Din 2015 este profesor abilitat și conduce doctorate în cadrul școlii doctorale UAT.
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• Bogdan Crețu

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  Mihai Radu

  Mihai Radu (n. 1977) a absolvit Facultatea de Filosofie din cadrul Universității „Alexandru Ioan Cuza” din Iași. Este jurnalist la săptămânalul Cațavencii și scrie pentru emisiunea Starea Nației. După volumul de proză scurtă Hobby și alte povestiri, apărut în 2009, a publicat, împreună cu Simona Tache, Femeile vin de pe Venus, bărbații de la băut (2013) și Bărbații vin de pe Marte, femeile de la coafor (2015). De același autor, la Editura Polirom au mai apărut romanele Sebastian, ceilalți și-un câine (2014), Extraconjugal (2017, 2018) și Contaminare (2019).

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• Toma Roman Jr.

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  M.L. Rio

  M. L. Rio is an author, but before she was an author she was an actor, and before she was an actor she was just a word nerd whose best friends were books. She holds a master's degree in Shakespeare Studies from King's College London and Shakespeare's Globe and a PhD in English from the University of Maryland, College Park.

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  Tudor Ganea

  Tudor Ganea este arhitect. A debutat în 2016 cu romanul Cazemata (Polirom; tradus în 2020 în limba franceză), pentru care a primit premiul „Tînărul prozator al anului 2016” în cadrul Galei Tinerilor Scriitori, premiul pentru debut al revistei Observator cultural și premiul „Nepotu’ lui Thoreau” (debut) și a fost nominalizat la Premiile Uniunii Scriitorilor (debut). În 2017 i-a apărut cel de-al doilea roman, Miere (Polirom), distins cu premiul „Tînărul prozator al anului 2017”. În 2018 a publicat romanul Porci (Polirom), nominalizat pe lista scurtă a Premiului Uniunii Europene pentru Literatură 2019, iar în 2019 romanul 8 (Polirom). Fragmente din romanele sale au fost traduse în maghiară, turcă, italiană, franceză, spaniolă și engleză.

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• Olga Ştefan

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• Laura T. Ilea

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